Kathleen Tierney - “More than 80 percent of the housing was destroyed. It's an island there was nowhere to go. They didn't know when help was going to come. Law enforcement was rendered ineffective. They didn't know when they'd see another meal.”

Nicholas Boileau - “Honour is like an island, rugged and without shores we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside.”

Woody Allen - “We were married by a reformed rabi in Long Island. A very reformed rabi, a Nazi.”

Jon Corzine - “It remains to be seen whether or not development on the island would even be permitted under the Endangered Species Act,”

Linda Lingle - “Hawaii is an island state, thousands of miles from anywhere. It's as if we are in a boat, caught in treacherous waters, needing to set sail for a better place. If I were to chart a course north, but you insisted on going south, then we would go nowhere. We would stay stuck exactly where we started.”

Ann Thomas - “Please do not try to come back to the island. ... Hopefully, in the next couple of days, this island will be cleaned up and we'll get you home.”

Linda Doyle - “Because Ireland is an island, it can be a playground for spectrum.”

Ron Stratton - “The presence of this facility in Barbados is a major breakthrough for the Caribbean and Barbados in particular, as it not only means better service to BMW owners, but will also mean foreign exchange for this island as all the region's mechanics will be trained in Barbados.”

Joe Battista - “Well it could be. Rhode Island has been the younger team, and they matured. They're an older, more mature team, and it paid off.”

Bob Brown - “The island has changed a lot since I first came here in the 1970s. There have been a rash of new developments, some sympathetic, some less so. But it has still retained its essential charm.”